Re: [Qemu-devel] Sparc64 progress

[Blue Swirl]

On 7/16/08, Markus Dahms <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  > With Qemu r4780 and OpenBIOS r201 I get the following output on serial
>  > console:
>  > ./qemu-system-sparc64 -L . -kernel vmlinux-2.6.25.10-sun4u -serial stdio
>
>
> nice progress. Sadly I can't reproduce it here (still ia32, gcc-3.4), gdb
>  isn't really helpful for me:
>
>  | $ gdb qemu-system-sparc64
>  | (gdb) run -L . -kernel vmlinuz-2.6.18-6-sparc64-smp -serial stdio
>  | OpenBIOS for Sparc64
>  |
>  | Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
>  | [Switching to Thread 0xb7b306b0 (LWP 7734)]
>  | 0x08146ea3 in ?? ()
>  | (gdb) bt
>  | #0  0x08146ea3 in ?? ()
>  | #1  0xab2a95a8 in ?? ()
>  | #2  0x0891f204 in ?? ()
>  | #3  0x00000000 in ?? ()
>  | (gdb)
>
>  You may find a log with "-d op,exec,cpu,out_asm,in_asm,int" at
>  http://automagically.de/files/qemu-sparc64.log (~ 1.4 MB)
>
>  For the longer term, do you plan to add support for the SBus-based
>  Sun4u machines? At least for the Ultra 1 most of the hardware is
>  already emulated for Sun4m (esp, le, cg6...)... For the U1E/U2
>  isn't much needed either (hme, perhaps some fas bits in esp)...
>  Just a lot of glue missing ;)

Well, for now I try to get things working on a maximally PC-like
system (PCI, IDE, VGA, serial). After that (or if the approach fails)
more machines could be added.